The False Memory Syndrome at 30: How Flawed Science Turned into Conventional Wisdom
The False Memory Syndrome at 30: How Flawed Science Turned into Conventional Wisdom  In early December of 1990, the young academic was feeling confused. Though she had recently been granted tenure and was a happily married mother of two, she was weighed down by a surprising surge in anxiety. To get some relief from her distress, she decided to enter psychotherapy. When she mentioned in an early session how much she was dreading the prospect of seeing her parents during the upcoming Christmas vacation, her therapist asked if she had ever been abused. âI said, âNo,â but later...